Wounded Comrade

Artist/Maker Carl Ethan Akeley United States, 1864 - 1926

Date1918

MediumBronze

Dimensionspart (without base): 12 × 23 × 12 1/2 in. (30.5 × 58.4 × 31.8 cm)

Credit LineGift of the 1999 Collectors Circle, National Museum of Wildlife Art

Object numberM1999.112

ClassificationsSculpture

SignedSigned

InscribedP left side of base: To Leonard D Baldwin From Carl Akeley (raised letter) P right front corner of base: The Wounded Comrade/ © Carl Akeley/ 1918 Inscribed to Leonard D. Baldwin from Carl Akeley

DescriptionTwo elephants helping a third elephant to escape after being shot by a hunter. Provenance: The artist to Leonard D. Baldwin, by descent to his brother, then to his brother's grandaughter, Joan Baldwin. Estate of Joan Baldwin, Cape Neddick, MA. Inscription: Roman Bronze Works N-Y-.

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